Since the card is not aimed at the enthusiast markets, Visiontek did not include ramsinks to help keep the card’s memory cool during overclocking. This is an interesting omission since the reference samples of the Radeon 9600 256Mb graphics card include passive cooling on the GPU, making it almost seem that Visiontek is almost encouraging overclocking of the GPU while neglecting overclocking of the card’s memory.

Here we have a closer look at the card’s modest heatsink fan, and although modest, very efficient at cooling the 9600 GPU as we’ll see later in the review.

The Visiontek 9600 256Mb uses Samsung K4D551638D-TC40 memory chips, each weighing in at 32Mb for a combined 256Mb of total onboard memory.

And finally we can see the VGA, S-Video, and DVI outputs the Visiontek 9600 256Mb features.